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Pokémon Red Version [First Print] (Game Boy) cover art

Game Boy · 1996

Pokémon Red Version [First Print]

versionNTSC-U

A collector variant of Pokémon Red Version, priced on its own.

#19 most valuable Game Boy game · US version, boxed →

€342
CIB, complete in box
sold €296 to €444 · highest recorded sale €1,117Cardboard box: its condition moves the price most
● high confidence · 42 sales
◀ common · cheaperdrag, tap or use ← → · every condition priced & ratedrarer · pricier ▶
Sold prices are US-dollar sales, shown in EUR at the 2026-10-23 ECB reference rate (US$1 = €0.89).
◆ Graded? the premium is mostly trust, and it swings hugely by grade and whether it's sealed. See the full breakdown →

These are estimates from online sold-price data, across all regions. They’re a guide, not an offer: a game is worth what someone pays for it, and shops, markets and local sales can be higher or lower. Condition, photos and the seller’s reputation move a price within the range.

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Pokémon Red Version [First Print] (Game Boy, NTSC-U) sells for about €342 complete in box (42 sales, high confidence), €57 loose and ~€6,701+ sealed.

Why €342 for cib?

every factor, from real sales · changes with the condition you pick

Sales behind it42CIB sales of the US version Middle half €296 to €444 · highest recorded €1,117
How sure we are● High confidence42 sales that agree: the middle half of them sits within 1.5× of itself. Rated high.How prices are rated →
Condition ladder
Loose€57 
CIB€3426× loose
Sealed€6,701117.2× loose
The same game, the same version: what the box, the manual and the seal add.
Where it ranks#19most valuable Game Boy game, US version, boxed.See the list →

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US version · original parts on their own

Missing the box?~€223Box only · middle half €223 to €223○ best guess · 2 salesFind one on eBay 🇩🇪 →

Original boxes and manuals sold without the game. Reproductions and replacements are left out, and a part never counts as a copy of the game.

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Graded
WATA · CGC · VGA · PSA · UKG · every grade priced

    
Graded · WATA · CGC · VGA · PSA · UKG

    
What a graded copy sells for
From 29 graded sales of the US version (31 across all versions), each brought to today's money.

      
Version

    

      
The graded scale
Each bar runs from the grades most copies are in, low to high. Every dot is one sale, stacked with the others in its price band (today's money); the faint lines are this version's ungraded prices.

        
sold 2024 to 2026

      
Sealed First printgrades 8.0 to 9.8 · 10 sales

        
8.09.8

        
€7,503 to €47,114all companiesCheck latest on eBay →
Opened First printgrades 7.5 to 9.4 · 19 sales

        
7.59.4

        
€721 to €2,298all companiesCheck latest on eBay →
€50€100€200€500€1k€2k€5k€10k€20k€50kLoose €57CIB €342Sealed €6,701

      
sealed saleopened salecart or disc onlylisting didn't say, placed by its pricefar from the usual pricere-release, special edition or first print

    

    
Pick a grade
Any company, any grade: the price today and the range most sales fall in.

      
      

        
Copy

        
Company
Seal

        
9.0

        
€10,227most sales €7,287 to €14,582

        
Sold1 sale at WATA 9.0. The price uses all 10 sealed · first print sales of this game.

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      WATA sealed · first print: price by grade · band = where most sales fall · rings = grades that sold, with how many
      €5,000€10,000€20,000€50,000
      6.07.08.08.59.09.49.810.0
      
      22 sales at WATA 7.522 sales at WATA 8.011 sale at WATA 9.011 sale at WATA 9.4
      

    
Every grade
Each company's price for every grade of this copy. Bold prices have sold; the rest are estimates from the curve.

      
GradeWATACGCVGAPSAUKG
10.0 / 100
9.8··
9.6··
9.5 / 95···
9.4··
9.2··
9.0 / 90
8.5 / 85
8.0 / 80
7.5 / 75
7.0 / 70
6.5 / 65
6.0 / 60
Tap a price to see it in the grade picker. Sealed prices assume an A+ seal rating.

    
Today's money
The graded market moved a lot: copies sold in 2021 (second half) went for 1.5 times today's prices. Every sale is brought to today's level before it counts.

        
        today = 1.0
        1.5×
        20162026

      
One curve, every grade
Each price comes from all of this game's graded sales together, never one sale per grade. What a grade step is worth is learned from every graded sale on the site.

        
  • WATA 9.8 sealed: 1.84× a 9.0
  • WATA 10 sealed: 3.38× a 9.0
  • A seal rated C: 0.53× an A+
  • Opened WATA 9.4: 1.28× a 9.0

      
Left out of this version
No sale of the US version was left out.

        
    
    
    Graded prices are today's, converted from US dollars like every sold price on this page: every graded sale of this game, older sales brought to today's market level. We never claim to authenticate a slab or a seal.
    
    
  
    
  
    
    
    What is Pokémon Red Version [First Print] (Game Boy) worth?
    
    
    Pokémon Red Version [First Print] on Game Boy is estimated here by condition and region from sold-price data, each rated for confidence. Loose carts, complete-in-box (CIB), sealed and graded copies each sell for very different amounts, and PAL and NTSC are separate markets we never average together.
    
    
    How much is Pokémon Red Version [First Print] (Game Boy) worth?
    Pokémon Red Version [First Print] (Game Boy, NTSC-U) sells for about €342 complete in box (42 sales, high confidence), €57 loose and ~€6,701+ sealed. These are sold-price estimates for the NTSC-U version.
    Is a loose Pokémon Red Version [First Print] cart worth anything?
    A loose NTSC-U cart sells for about €57 (18 sales, high confidence). A complete-in-box copy sells for about €342.
    How much is a sealed Pokémon Red Version [First Print] worth?
    Sealed NTSC-U copies sell for ~€6,701+ (a floor: sealed prices spread widely). "Sealed" means listed as factory-sealed, which nobody here verifies.
    
  
    
  
    
    
    How this number is made, and why it's better. Sold-price estimates, split by region & condition, cleaned of bootlegs and bundles with every exclusion shown, plus specialist pricing on the games we know deeply. Every condition gets a price, honestly rated. Live eBay asks shown separately, and the buy link goes to your own country's eBay. Full methodology →
    
    
    • a price on every condition
    • each rated for confidence
    • region & language split
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